TY - CHAP
T1 - Early Ecclesiastical Organisation of Scandinavia, especially Sweden
AU - Brink, Stefan
PY - 2013/1
Y1 - 2013/1
N2 - This article addresses two vital, although very elusive and problematic, aspects of the early church in Scandinavia. One is the intermediate phase between initial Christianization (probably to be placed in the tenth and early eleventh centuries) and the later parish formation phase (in the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries). The other concerns the incentive for parish formation: one still unsolved problem, for instance, is why in Scandinavia the word to be used for a ‘parish’ was sokn, an old legal word, which more or less simultaneously became the word for a ‘parish’ used all over Scandinavia (except Iceland).
AB - This article addresses two vital, although very elusive and problematic, aspects of the early church in Scandinavia. One is the intermediate phase between initial Christianization (probably to be placed in the tenth and early eleventh centuries) and the later parish formation phase (in the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries). The other concerns the incentive for parish formation: one still unsolved problem, for instance, is why in Scandinavia the word to be used for a ‘parish’ was sokn, an old legal word, which more or less simultaneously became the word for a ‘parish’ used all over Scandinavia (except Iceland).
U2 - 10.1484/M.AS-EB.1.100810
DO - 10.1484/M.AS-EB.1.100810
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9782503540481
T3 - Acta Scandinavica
SP - 23
EP - 39
BT - Medieval Christianity in the North
A2 - Salonen, Kirsi
A2 - Jensen, Kurt Villads
A2 - Jørgensen, Torstein
PB - Brepols
CY - Turnhout
ER -